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Küçükçekmece, İstanbul, Tr

• Actively working as an Environmental Sustainability Executive for TEE (Turkey and Eastern Europe) region.• Implementing environmental compliance and sustainability initiatives across the Primark’s TEE region including a variety of textile, cosmetics and home product producers from raw material to finished product, in support of the Primark Environmental Sustainability Programme.• Supporting the implementation of tools that are needed to measure and report progress on the ES goals and programme, in alignment with Primark’s Global Environmental KPI Framework• Developing and maintaining strong relationships with suppliers and manufacturing facilities across Tiers 1-3 regarding Primark’s Environmental Sustainability programme.• Monitoring factory performance and progress regarding implementation of the environmental sustainability programme: circularity & waste, biodiversity (including chemistry and water), carbon (GHG emissions and energy management) and compliance.• Ensuring that factory performance data is up to date, transparent and accurate.• Providing frequent reporting on progress related to supply chain performance and projects.• Engaging with factories and suppliers to overcome challenges that limit the measurement of progress, communicating learnings to the central ES team.• Analysing factory performance data to support the development of solutions using data illustration apps such as Microsoft Power BI and Tableau.• Attending events, conferences and working groups to build industry relationships in-country and support cross- industry development of solutions.

• Appointed as Sustainability Specialist for both Saide Tekstil and New Look Turkey at October 2021• Conducting environmental audits (pre-Higg checks and fabric mill audits) and managing sustainability projects for Saide Group's supply chain. • Organising and presenting trainings for sustainability related issues such as Higg FEM(Facility Environmental Module) Training, How to fill your Chemical Inventory List ?, How to track your supply chain?, Sustainability applications in textile sector...

İstanbul, Türkiye

• Worked as traceability, technical safety, environmental and social compliance responsible.• Responsible for controlling and supervising the production processes of Primark.• Main objectives are preventing illegal subcontracting and examining the sustainability of factories in terms of production quality, environmental and social compliance of Saide Textile’s suppliers, such as Primark, Tesco, Inditex, NKD and LIDL.• Certified ISO 9001:2015, CPI Corporate Social Responsibility and Supplier Ownership Primark Technical Assessment (SOPTA) auditor.• Checking the technical (product safety, garment quality, capacity assessment, sharp tool policy) compliance of the factories that going to work with Tesco and preparing the company for the audit before the third-party assessments.• Managing NKD’s Ethical and Environmental(ISO 14001 based) Corrective Action Preventive Action Plan (CAPA) process and co-work with the factories to ensure that sustainability of high ethical and environmental performance.• Assisting Primark Ethical Trade (Solutions Dep.) Team for special project such as: KÇÖ Remediation Programme and Establishing Education Module for young workers.

• Appointed as Environmental Sustainability Executive for New Look Turkey at October 2021• Conducting environmental audits (pre-Higg checks and fabric mill audits) and managing sustainability projects for New Look’s (Turkey) supply chain. • Organising and presenting trainings for sustainability related issues such as Higg FEM(Facility Environmental Module) Training, How to fill your Chemical Inventory List ?, How to track your supply chain?, Sustainability applications in textile sector...

Istanbul, Turkey

• Worked as an Environmental Engineer in wastewater analysis(DETOX) lab from Februrary 2018 to September 2018.• Responsible for the collect wastewater and sludge samples from a variety of large companies’ wastewater treatment facilities and bring it to the lab for analysis. After the analysis process, in charge of the writing a report and send to the companies via using Microsoft Office. • Gained many experiences about field engineering and customer relations.• More than hundreds of factories were visited in more than ten provinces.

Istanbul, Turkey

Environmental Engineering mandatory office internship.

Istanbul, Turkey

I worked as a cargo tracking officer from May 2016 to September 2016.

Istanbul, Turkey

Environmental Engineering mandatory lab internship.

Istanbul, Turkey

I worked as a CNC machine operator and SOLIDWORKS CAD operator during the 2014 summer.

Master Of Science - Ms, Water Resources Engineering

due to some personal issues, it is postponed.

Master Of Science - Ms, Environmental Sciences Engineering And Management

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Environmental Engineering, 2.88

Activities and Societies: • Giant Gyroscope Project (Physics 101 - Finishing Project) Score: 22 out of 25 • Stirling Engine Powered Model.

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Environmental Sciences, 4.00

Activities and Societies: ESN Ústí• 4.00/4.00 GPA, • Erasmus+ Programme, • I wrote three academic articles during my education: (Land.

Master Of Science - Ms, Water Resources Engineering